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“We’re thinking about paying off the mortgage on our house,” said my client in a recent meeting. This family also wants to pay for both their children to attend college, so their desire to use surplus funds to pay off their mortgage was surprising. “We’ve got extra cash and it would be awesome to not have to pay that monthly bill.” It’s a question I’ve heard a lot in the past year: Should I try to pay off my mortgage early? What are the benefits of paying off my mortgage early? Should I refinance? The challenge is that there is…

Hundreds of passengers and crew on an Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco face a tense wait to complete their flight after an engine problem forced them to land in the far east of Russia.The emergency landing at Magadan, on the Sea of Okhotsk, raises questions about how Russian authorities will treat the Boeing 777 aircraft and its GE Aerospace engines, as well as any people among the 216 passengers and 16 crew carrying passports from countries seen as hostile to Russia.The US State Department said it could not confirm if any American citizens were on board…

3/3 © Reuters. Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex walks outside the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain June 6, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay 2/3 By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry launched a fierce attack on the “vile” press on Tuesday, blaming tabloids for destroying his adolescence and later relationships, as he gave evidence for almost five hours in his lawsuit against a tabloid publisher. As he became the first senior British royal to appear in a witness box in more than a century, Harry also said the thought of people unlawfully intruding into…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Nord Stream 2 AG is seen at an office building in Zug, Switzerland March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States had intelligence of a detailed Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream pipeline three months before it was bombed, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing leaked information posted online. The CIA learned last June, through a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to blow up the Russia-to-Germany project, the newspaper reported. The European intelligence reporting was shared on…

Source: Adobe / daniel0Despite a new round of regulatory FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in wake of their just-announced lawsuit against Coinbase, crypto prices are rising again.Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and a number of meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) were all trading in the green on Tuesday.BTC was last in the $26,000, ETH in the $1,840 area, DOGE just under $0.07 and SHIB near $0.000008, all sharply up from Monday’s lows.In the two SEC lawsuits announced this week against Binance and Coinbase, the regulatory agency has accused a…

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is pushing back at the Biden administration’s downplaying of the controversy stemming from its move to send two top officials to China at the same time as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.”Once again, the Biden Administration yielded to Chinese demands and got embarrassed on the world stage,” the San Diego Republican told Fox News Digital. “They can maintain it doesn’t matter, but make no mistake: With Biden at the helm, America is losing ground to Beijing. Pretending it doesn’t matter just shows the limits of their spin after the fact.”Issa was responding to a comment from…

Here are some stocks seeing bigger movers on Tuesday: Stock gainers: Shares of Thor Industries Inc. shot THO, +14.53% up 15% in morning trading after the recreational vehicle maker reported a fiscal third-quarter adjusted profit that was more than what was expected, and nudged up its full-year outlook. Rival RV maker Winnebago Industries Inc.’s stock WGO, +9.62% jumped more than 7% in sympathy. The company projected by FactSet to report quarterly results on or about June 21. Mereo BioPharma Group PLC shares MREO, +10.48% gained 3.3% and Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.‘s stock RARE, +1.26% gained 1.5% after the companies announced positive…

CNN CEO Chris Licht claimed to lose nearly 50 pounds from diet and exercise.Now sources tell the Daily Mail and the Daily Beast’s Confider that Licht boasted of using Ozempic.It’s yet another bit of fallout from a disastrous profile of Licht in The Atlantic. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app One of the odder interludes of the Atlantic’s long and damning profile of Chris Licht, CEO of CNN, were the intense morning gym sessions with Licht and his personal trainer. Licht told…

© Reuters. A view of the skyline of downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank on Tuesday raised its 2023 global growth outlook as the U.S., China and other major economies have proven more resilient than forecast, but said higher interest rates and tighter credit will take a bigger toll on next year’s results. Real global GDP is set to climb 2.1% this year, the World Bank said in its latest Global Economic Prospects report. That’s up from a 1.7% forecast issued in January but well below the 2022…

© Reuters. A logo is seen on the grill of an E-transit concept vehicle during a press event at the Ford Halewood transmissions plant in Liverpool, Britain, December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble (Reuters) – Ford Motor (NYSE:) Co on Tuesday named Whirlpool Corp (NYSE:)’s Liz Door its chief supply chain officer, at a time when the automaker navigates through parts shortages and rising costs. The appointment, effective June 12, comes as the company predicts a difficult 2023, blaming chip shortages and other supply chain issues and production instabilities. The role had been held on an interim basis by CFO John…